Originally published in 1981 this book deals with many the Weimar period, including the revolutionary events following the First World War; the development of the Reichswehr; the role of heavy industry in shaping foreign policy, and the dissolution of the bourgeois party system during the last years before 1933.

1. Introduction: Themes in the History of Weimar Germany Richard Bessel 2. The German Revolution 1918-1920: Political Revolution and Social Protest Movement Wolfgang J. Mommsen 3. The Impact of the Inflation: Inflation, the Courts and Revaluation David B. Southern 4. Professionals and Junkers: German Rearmament and Politics in the Weimar Republic Michael Geyer 5. The Dilemma of German Agriculture during the Weimar Republic Dieter Gessner 6. Women in Weimar Germany: The 'Frauenfrage' and the Female Vote Helen L. Boak 7. The Politics of Corporatism: Hamburg Handicraft in the Late Weimar Republic, 1927-1933 Frank Dortmund 8. Working-class Life and Working-class Politics: Communists, Nazis and the State in the Battle for the Streets, Berlin 1928-1932 Eve Rosenhaft 9. Industrial Primacy in German Foreign Policy? Myths and Realities in German-Russian Relations at the End of the Weimar Republic Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann 10. The Dissolution of the Bourgeois Party System in the Weimar Republic Larry Eugene Jones .